Are your kids buying "dumb" phones and/or ditching social media? How about you?

None of us in my family spend much time on social media. For me it’s just LinkedIn and CC - I’ve never had a Facebook or Instagram account, and for my wife and daughter it’s mostly just Instagram.

We are trying to reduce overall phone usage, but we have no plans to get rid of our phones entirely. They offer too many conveniences, from paying at the grocery store to adjusting the thermostats when we’re away from home.

Our kids’ generation has grown up around smart devices since they were very young (even if they didn’t personally own one until later), so I think it’s hard for most of them to imagine life without them. Kudos to those who are experimenting with going phone-free, though! I’m fully in favor of reducing phone and app usage.